Hair curling device



May 6, 1952 w. H. H. DAVIS ETAL HAIR CURLING DEVICE Filed Jan. 8, 1949 ATTOQNEYS Patented May 6, 1952 HAIR I CURLING DEVICE William H. H. Davis and Floyd V. Schleimer, San Francisco, Calif.; said Schlcimer assignor to Duart Manufacturing 00., Ltd., a corporation of California Application January 8, 1949, Serial No. 69,933

2 Claims. 1

This invention relates to devices to be used in connection with the curling of hair andjparticularly to devices on which separate locks of hair may be tightly wound in Croquignole fashion and then secured in place for a considerable periodof time in order to permit the hair totake a set in the form of a Croquignole curl or wave.

It isan object of this invention to provide a device of the character described which is relatively small and of simple and inexpensive construction, and which is easily used for the purpose intended by either a skilled beauty operator or in the home.

A further object of the invention is to provide ,a device of the character described which will be maintained in place by the hair which is wound thereon and which is so constructed that the device may be placed immediately adjacent the scalp, so that the entire look, from its free end to the scalp, will receive a wav It is a further object of this invention to provide a handy handle for a device of this kind.

Further objects and advantages of this invention will appear from the following description taken in connection with the accompanying drawings in which Figure 1 is a plan view of the device incorporating our invention in which the two portions are separated;

Figure 2 is a device as shown in Figure 1 in which the two portions have been joined and hairhas been wound upon the same; I

Figure 3 is the device shown in Figures 1 and 2 in which the hair has been wound upon one of the devices and the other has been removed therefrom;

Figure 4 is a view taken along the line 4-4 of Figure 1;

Figure 5 is a view taken along the line 5-5 of Figure 1; 1

Figure 6 is a view, partly cross-sectional, taken along the line 6-6 of Figure 1; and

Figure '7 is a cross-sectional elevation taken along the line 1-1 of Figure 1.

As shown in Figure 1 our device consists generally of a member upon which hair may be wound and a member llwhich consists of a handle or winding device.

As shown in the drawings, the member I0 consists of a stationary shuttle I2 and a rotatable mandrel l3. The member I2 is provided with an annular orifice which is adapted to cooperate with the member I3 generally, as shown in Figure 7. Both members l2 and I3 are provided with registering orifices l6 and I! which are adapted to accommodate a rivet I8 which extends upwardly through the members I2 and I3 into a cavity l9 within the member l3. A washer 2| formed of readily deformable material such as natural or synthetic rubber is next placed about the rivet I 8, a washer 22 is placed thereupon and the rivet is spread in the conventional manner. In this way members 2 and I3 are rotatably secured together. Yet, because of the deformation of the member 2|, the devices are not freely rotatable. The member I3 is provided with an upstanding pin 23 the purpose of which will be more fully hereinafter described.

The handle or winding portion consists generally of a handle as shown, one end of which is provided with an extending member 26 which is adapted to cooperate with and rotate within the cavity I9 of the member 3. The handle H is also provided with an annularly extending flange 21 which is substantially the same diameter as the flanged member l2 whereby, when the two devices are joined, as shown in Figure 2, the flanged member l2 and the flange 21 form a spool within which hair may be wound.

The member within the flange 21 is provided with an inwardly extending groove 28 which is adapted to receive the member I3, and an orifice 29 which is adapted to receive the pin 23 whereby, when the pin 23 is in the orifice 29, rotation of handle member will be imparted, through the pin 23 to the member [3.

The member H is also provided with a clip 3| which is actuated by handle 32 and which is retained in the position generally as shown in Figure 6 by a spring 33. The purpose of the clip 3| will be more fully hereinafter described.

The shuttle I2 is also provided with an opening 36 and a pair of generally concentric slots 3'! and 38 the purpose of which will be more fully hereinafter described in connection with the description of the operation of the device.

Operation of our device may be described as follows:

The members I0 and II are joined together in such a manner that the member 26 rests within the cavity |9 and the annular wall member I3 is accommodated within the groove 28 of the member Pin 23 is accommodated within the orifice 29 and the clip 3| engages the outside wall of the rotating mandrel I3.

A tress of hair is then separated from the remainder of the hair upon the human head and that portion of the hair remote from its roots is placed in contact with the mandrel l3 and under the clip 3| in such a manner that the clip 3| retains the tip end of the hair. The handle H is then rotated. It will be recalled that rotation of the handle ll likewise causes rotation of the revolving mandrel l3. wrapped, from its extremity to its roots, upon the mandrel l3 and between the flange 21 and the stationary shuttle 12. When substantially all of the hair in the tress has been wound upon the mandrel l3 and the device is in close proximity to the scalp, the tress is passed through the orifice 39 into either one of the slots 37 or 38 in such a, manner that the shuttle 12 may be placed substantially in engagement with the scalp. After the hair has been passed through the orifice 36 and is retained in one of the slots 31 or 38, the mandrel l3 and the handle may be further rotated since, it will be recalled, the mandrel I3 is rotatable with respect to the shuttle 12. In this manner the desired tension may be applied to the hair wound upon the mandrel 13. When the desired tension has been obtained, the handle I I may be removed from the mandrel 13 by simply drawing the same directly away therefrom in such a manner that the member 26 and the cavity I9 are no longer in engagement, the member 13 and the annular groove 28 are no longer in engagement, and the spring clip no longer engages the hair or the mandrel. The shuttle I2 and mandrel [3 with the hair which has been wrapped thereupon may then be allowed to remain upon the head until the fluid or liquid which has been placed thereon to impart a curl to the hair has dried. At that time the device may be removed from the scalp by simply removing the tress of hair from the slot 31 or 38 through the opening 36 and allowing it to fall free of the mandrel.

While many devices have been proposed by others in the past to achieve the results which we achieve, we have found that none of them are satisfactory for various reasons. We have found it desirable to have a device upon which the hair may be tensioned even after the hair has been Wound upon the device and the device has been placed in proximity to the scalp. No other device of this character has been made, to our knowledge. The combination of the rotating mandrel and the stationary shuttle make this possible. In the second place we have provided a device which may be secured to the hair without the use of pins, clips, or other devices. However, the slots 31 or 3B which we have provided, in and of themselves, would not achieve the result desired for the reason that if the hair were merely passed into the slot on the shuttle I l without provision for further tightening of the hair or winding of the hair upon the mandrel I3, the device would not be retained upon the scalp.

Therefore it is readily seen that the combination of the rotating mandrel and the stationary shuttle is of utmost importance. Not only does it make possible further tensioning of the hair after the device has been applied to the hair and scalp but it also renders possible the use of a simple slot or pair of slots in the shuttle to retain the device upon the scalp. This feature eliminates the use of various types of caps, pins, clips, etc. which have been used in the past.

In this way the hair is By providing the annular flange 27 we have created a spool or reel arrangement upon which hair may be wound easily, since the flange 21 and the shuttle 12 form barriers to side movement.

We claim:

1. In a hair curling device, a mandrel adapted to, receive hair for winding thereon, an axle extending from the lower end of said mandrel, a relatively fiat base member mounted on said axle for relative rotation with respect to said mandrel and in a plane at right angles to the axis of the mandrel and extendin outwardly of the same, friction means between said mandrel and said base member tending to impose a frictional restraint against such relative rotation, a detachable handle engaging said mandrel, a projecting pin at the upper end of said mandrel for engagement with the handle, groove means in the lower end of said handle to engage said pin in driving engagement, sprin clip means attached to the lower end of said handle to overlie a major longitudinal portion of the surface of said mandrel and thereby retain strands of hair upon said mandrel, a flat annular plate mounted upon and surrounding the lower portion of said handle to provide the upper wall of a reel formed in conjunction with the mandrel and said base member, said handle and said spring clip means being readily removed from said mandrel after strands of hair are wound about said mandrel.

2. In a hair curling device, a mandrel adapted to receive hair to be wound thereon, an axle extending from the lower end of said mandrel, a fiat base member mounted on said axle for relative rotation with respect to said mandrel and in a plane at right angles to the axis of the mandrel and extending outwardly from the same, a projecting pin formed on the upper endof said mandrel, a detachable handle engaging said mandrel and said projecting pin, a recess in the lower end of said handle to engage said pin in driving engagement, a spring clip attached to the lower end of said handle to overlie a portionof the surface of said mandrel to thereby hold the end of a strand of hair to be wound upon said mandrel, an annular member mounted upon and surrounding the lower portion of said handle to thereby form the upper wall of a reel in conjunction with the mandrel in said base member, said mandrel and attached devices being readily removed from said mandrel after strands of hair are wound about said mandrel.

- WILLIAM H. H. DAVIS. FLOYD V. SCHLEIMER.

REFERENCES CITED The following references are of record in the file of this patent:

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